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Using PHP with DataDirect Connect® ODBC Drivers
Introduction
PHP is a server-side scripting language that has proven its popularity and success through explosive growth. In the last five years, the number of domains using PHP to generate Web pages has grown from under two million to over 20 million (http://www.php.net/usage.php). PHP long ago moved from a hobbyist tool for creating dynamic Web pages to a commercially viable option for large Web sites and enterprise-level applications including Google, Yahoo, and SugarCRM.
Most of the PHP applications in existence today rely on a relational database to store the information that is used to create dynamic Web pages. Connecting to these databases in a manner that can handle a high volume of transactions is crucial to ensure availability and performance of Web-based applications. DataDirect Connect® for ODBC can provide the Web developer access to all of the major databases, which gives the maximum amount of flexibility for applications. DataDirect Connect for ODBC provides connectivity from UNIX/Linux platforms to Microsoft SQL Server and is the only suite of ODBC drivers to offer wire protocol solutions that do not require database vendor client libraries such as Oracle Net or DB2 Connect. In addition to eliminating the installation of the database client libraries and reducing the associated maintenance tasks, wire protocol drivers also offer performance advantages by reducing the network communication layers between the application and database.
This article explains how to use DataDirect Connect for ODBC with PHP to maximize a PHP deployment on either UNIX/Linux or Windows. Benefits such as improved performance, reduced server resources, and the elimination of database client libraries are why DataDirect Connect products are in use by more than 270 commercial software vendors and in thousands of corporate applications worldwide.
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